Supplemental/Graduate/DL Information

TO: All Faculty

FROM: Pam DeGraffenreid

RE: Supplemental/Graduate/Distance Learning Textbook Requirements

This letter is to request textbook information. As many of you know, textbook costs are an ongoing issue with the UNC Board of Governors and have generated interest in on-time adoption rates within the system. On-time adoptions are important for bookstores to access the used book market and thus lower textbook costs. In addition, the Higher Education Opportunity Act (HEOA) requires that textbook information must be available to students at the time of registration. Please share this information within your department and let us know if we can help you with submitting your textbook requests by the due date.

Supplemental/graduate/dl textbook requests may be submitted either through the WCU Bookstore website at http://books.wcu.edu (faculty links) or on a hardcopy also available on our website. There are no standing orders for textbooks you ask students to purchase. Purchase textbook requests must be submitted each semester. Requests for supplemental/graduate/dl textbooks must be received as soon as possible to allow processing of orders and receiving of books in a timely manner.

If anyone would like to review the history from a previous semester please contact Pam Bryson at brysonpam@email.wcu.edu to request a history summary. I will be happy to provide this information.

Supplemental/Graduate and Distance Learning Textbook Requests need to be received by (see permanent textbook requests due dates on our website.)

NOTE: Please include all sections. We are looking at actual enrollment based on the section(s) you provide. Example-enter section 01, 05 and not 2 sections.